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Police pull out the excuse that they are conditioned to fear people, but people are becoming conditioned to fear police.  Could be that we are brewing up a lot more trouble than a few court cases.

We have been groaning through a season of exposees of powerful men abusing women (and boys).

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It has been one year since Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died at the age of 90. Since seizing Cuba in January 1959, Castro was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. In this article that first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Dr. Paul Kengor urges the world to remember Castro for what he achieved the most: tyranny, repression, and death.

Much has been said about the acquittal of felonious invader Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the killer of young Kate Steinle, who died in her father’s arms. Yet while most of the focus has been on “sanctuary cities” — a euphemism for treasonous, lawless cities — there perhaps has been no scrutiny of the people whose minds are too often a sanctuary from knowledge and reality: modern jurors. 

I once wrote a piece titled “Why Most Voters Shouldn’t Vote,” and a corresponding principle may be that most jurors shouldn’t sit on juries. People so apathetic that they couldn’t be bothered to try and determine reality on high profile candidates or cases probably won’t transform, magically, into sagacious sleuths of reality upon entering a ballot or jury box. Apathy is not an asset, and ignorance is not a virtue. 

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Few witnesses could be more damning against a purported sexual abuser of four decades ago than an ex-cop from that era. That is, unless the ex-cop has a hidden agenda. Like the former Gadsden, Alabama cop who claims police were told in the 1970s to ensure that now-GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore stayed away from teen cheerleaders — and who actually turns out to be a left-wing Moore opponent

The Alabama Senate race could determine whether Roe v. Wade is overturned. The lives of millions of unborn may be the stakes.

Today, the GOP, holding Congress and the White House, has a narrow path to capture the Third Branch, the Supreme Court, and to dominate the federal courts for a decade.

Thus have the skids been greased for a conservative recapture of the federal judiciary unseen since the early days of FDR.

No president in decades has seen the opportunity Trump has to remake the federal judiciary.

Both Trump, by whom he nominates, and a Republican Senate, with its power to confirm with 51 votes, are indispensable if we are to end judicial dictatorship in America.

Despite the results of over a half century of systematic erosion of ethics, morality, and decency within our country, a long overdue and accelerating rise of revelations of past sexual transgressions are currently minimizing, if not destroying, significant elements of the “elite establishment” power structure of the United States of America. The political party that implemented the genocide of native peoples, supported slavery, white supremacy, segregation and finally the “Great Society” of dependency had miraculously succeeded in convincing minority populations of America that “Conservatives” were the enemy. 

Monday, November 20, was the United Nations’ Universal Children’s Day. To help mark the occasion, Dr. Gary S. Smith looks at the plight of the world’s children and argues that we ought to commit ourselves to working to give them a better life. Smith writes, “Instead of throwing our arms up in despair, let’s act to help the world’s children. The world has enough resources to provide all children with adequate food to eat and clean water to drink.”

For over 20 years we have been unwitting enablers of sexual misconduct and abuse in Congress.  It has the degenerate smack of the fallen Roman Empire.

If there is anyone on Planet Earth this side of Harvey Weinstein who should keep his mouth tightly shut on the topic of the conduct or judgment of others it is Trump.

Paxton predicts this will happen again. Laws against guns only keep guns out of the hands of the law-abiding. There were laws in place to prevent Devin Kelley from acquiring a gun. He just didn't obey them.

There is a good case to be made for excising California from the United States republic. If they don't see fit to secede on their own, I suggest we explore this route.

The National Health Service—Great Britain’s socialized medical system—recently released treatment guidelines stating that patients who are obese or who smoke will be banned from receiving “non-urgent” surgeries. Why the new policy? In this article, Richard D. Kocur examines the guidelines and argues that it “cuts to the heart of why socialized medicine ultimately fails those whom it is designed to serve.”

“Bipartisan” is defined as anything consisting of, or supported by, members of two parties, especially two major political parties. That is the definition of the word.

 As practiced, however, bipartisanship is used as a public opinion weapon in the hands of the public. It is hoped that calls for bipartisanship will help beat an opponent into submission. What is said is one thing. What is actually done is another. Calls for bipartisanship become a semantics power game.

Bipartisanship is a staged propaganda event, short and simple.

Are Americans in favor of cooperation? Yes.

 Bipartisanship? Take a knee.

An upcoming argument before the Supreme Court will ask the question: Should a baker in Colorado be compelled by the state to make a cake for a same-sex wedding reception when the baker has religious and free-speech objections to using his artistry that way? Will the Supreme Court uphold the right of Americans to be free from being compelled by the state to express a message against one’s beliefs? In this article, Dr. John Sparks examines the case and what is at stake in this important upcoming decision.

No more free-association gun legislating. No more shots in the dark. No more making it up as you go along. For example:

• You say bump stocks allow a person to fire too rapidly. Okay, what exactly is the maximum number of rounds per minute a weapon available to the public should be capable of firing? What’s your reasoning?
• “High-capacity magazines” is an ambiguous term. Exactly what size magazine should citizens be allowed to own? What’s your reasoning?
• Don’t tell us about “high-powered rifles.” Tell us exactly what the maximum muzzle velocity of a publicly available firearm should be. What’s your reasoning?
• Another ambiguous (and misleading) term is “armor-piercing ammunition.” What exactly should the maximum penetration power of a publicly available round be? What’s your reasoning?

Once you formulate your concrete vision (for the first time in your lives), please present it. If we accept it, though, note what the agreement means: You don’t get to ask for more anti-gun laws ever again. There’s no more politicizing of the issue after every shooting. The vision is conceived, articulated, agreed upon — and then set in stone.

Of course, I’m sure there’s no way to make such a thing legally binding, and no other agreement with liberals is worth the paper it’s printed on. The point is that without such a vision’s presentation we shouldn’t even take anti-gun proposals seriously. Doing otherwise is akin to pandering to children (and liberals are overgrown children) when they stamp their feet and scream about what they want right now, “just because.”

This doesn’t mean we should be totally averse to compromise. So try this on for size: I propose reducing the 22,000 anti-gun laws currently on the books by 10,000. If that’s unacceptable, however, I’ll agree to a 5,000-law reduction — for now. There’s always next year’s negotiation, after all.

According to the narrative manufactured by the Democrat left, promoted by the liberal media and never challenged by the Republican never-Trumpers, the duly elected President Trump won the 2016 campaign with collusion by the Russians. As can be seen in the following quotes that is laughable!

In late August, a coalition of Christian leaders released the Nashville Statement—a document affirming their beliefs regarding human sexuality—which has over 17,000 signers to date. In this article, Dr. George Van Pelt Campbell explains why he chose to sign. Campbell writes, “The primary reason I signed the Nashville Statement is that, with many other Christians, I believe it expresses truth.”

Book lovers are in a class of their own. Bibliophiles, the technical term for these gentle folks of bookish behavior, have unbridled affection and unquenchable thirst for the printed word.

Biblioclepts, for example, are people who steal books.

Biblioclasts destroy books.

Bibliotaphs are those who love their books so much they bury them.

Bibliophagi, undoubtedly the most bizarre among book lovers, are people who virtually eat the printed word.

For bibliomanes, quantity counts. 

In the face of the enormous challenge from technology and electronic devices the world of books is held at bay like aliens from another world. Families gather around the TV for an evening of non-interaction. Books collect dust as individuals peck away distractedly on their devices.

However, as long as people have ideas to share and there are readers who seek understanding, there will always be books.

Where books are found, so are literary addictions.

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October 2017 observes the centenary of communism—a time to solemnly mark the 100 years by reflecting on the fact that an estimated 100 million people lost their lives under communist governments. However, last week the New York Times ran an article that suggested communism was a good thing for women. In this article that first appeared at The American Spectator, Dr. Paul Kengor counters the Times piece and argues that many facts about communism were left out. Kengor writes, “Quite astonishingly, the article makes no mention of poverty or starvation for women in communist China, where more people died than in any other country under communism.”

If anti-gun laws are a good idea now, they’ll also be a good idea later, when the emotion surrounding Las Vegas has subsided. But since facts and reason aren’t on the leftists’ side, they’re left to appeal to emotion — and that’s most easily done when blood is still on the ground. 

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The Ruling Class accumulates power by redistributing other people’s wealth. Power derives from public office because it is from there that elected officials distribute the “bacon” to their constituents from whom the money was confiscated as taxes in the first place. Money becomes an aphrodisiac administered by Senators and Representatives to the public so they can show love and be loved in return.

It is easy for The Ruling Class to give the appearance of “getting things done” by voting on non-controversial measures they know in advance won’t go anywhere. These are “safe” votes that can be sold to their constituents as “bipartisan” efforts.

 On hard issues requiring leadership such as income tax reform, immigration and border security as well as repealing Obamacare, the Ruling Class resolved nothing. Our Senators and Representatives have talked a good fight for years. Yet, through those years, nothing substantive has been accomplished. It is time to drain the swamp starting with the 2018 primaries and conventions.

Trump has encouraged firings of the players involved and boycotts of football. In the former I disagree – it looks very unhealthy to me to urge firings for expressions of thought, however nebulous the "thought" may be. In the latter, this, at least, utilized the free market and free will to show disapproval and encourage the change we want as a majority of patriotic Americans.

Meet “Big Dog” Brown: From a troubled childhood to multiple stints in prison, Brown’s story is a remarkable journey of God’s love and grace. In this article, Dr. Gary S. Smith tells Big Dog’s story and highlights the importance of Christian charity and compassion. Smith writes, “A compassionate adult might have helped Brown develop better self-esteem, avoid drugs, and come to know Christ at an earlier age. Sadly, hundreds of thousands of children are growing up today in situations similar to the one in which Brown was raised.” Click below for more.

We are not God. We do not have a right to arbitrarily determine that a life is not "viable" or worth saving or worth living.

The most audacious entry in the campaign to equate Catholicism and anti-Semitism is that of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of A Moral Reckoning: The Catholic Church during the Holocaust and Today.

In Goldhagen’s mind, the Cross begot the Swastika. Nazism was the updated spawn of the earliest Christian teachings and the Holocaust was their fulfillment.

But Pius XII isn’t Goldhagen’s ultimate target; Christianity is. He contends that the central Christian doctrine — the doctrine of the Crucifixion — is anti-Semitic!