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You might not see this on the streets . . . yet.  Chances are very good that you will one day.

There are no guns involved in this.  It’s not happening in Nigeria - it happened last month in Minneapolis at Target Field, the home otf the Twins.

It is always the right time to teach your kids (or grandkids) about their inheritance - our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights!  

In the 18 years which have passed since the treachery of 9-11, we have made little to no progress against terrorism.  In fact, it could well be argued that not only did we learn nothing from the tragedy but we have gone on some kind of walkabout, shedding our freedoms the whole time.

On Tuesday, September 4, Democrat presidential wannabes engaged in a seven-hour environmental scare fest. And -- we are nowhere near Halloween! Those who buy into the manmade climate change drivel, like children at story time, want to be scared.

On Wednesday, after hearing about the CNN-sponsored dark festival, I made a beeline to a couple of books on my bookshelf. Much like the Democrat leaders today, previous doomsday soothsayers were saying silly sooth as far back as the 1960s. Even at that time Chicken Little’s sky had not fallen – but it might have in twenty or thirty years.

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While the president's indignant defenders deny that he is even considering a social credit score to deprive us of our Constitutional rights, we need to recognise that he is.  There have been many red flags before this man was nominated to run for president - many of us who were calling attention to them during the 2016 campaign were shouted down in a frenzy by Trump's supporters, goaded by a not unreasonable fear of the spectre of a Hilary Clinton in the White House.  But that is why we needed someone better qualified.  This is the price we are paying for electing someone totally foreign to our history, our laws and the reasoning which underpins these laws and our Constitution.  What he blithely proposes to "end" gun violence is nothing more than direct violation of our most sacred rights as Americans.  It's not "fake news" - it is a glaring reality.  

Another First Amendment case.  What will it mean for our freedom to make movies and see them?  What might it portend in view of the candidacy of Pete Buttegieg?

The controversy, today, is about semi-automatic rifles. It is a dishonest controversy. The great majority of rifles made today are semi-automatic. “Semi-automatic” simply means that the rifle cocks itself. The enemies of the first amendment, however, try to spread two misunderstandings:
1. that “semi-automatic” means fully automatic, like a submachine gun; and
2. that “semi-automatic” rifles are only fearsome war weapons without legitimate civilian purposes.

The naked truth is that the proponents of gun legislation are simply city slickers who just do not like fire arms, or ignorant people who want to limit rifles to the technology of 1919.

Is polyamory the secret to overcoming the “patriarchal oppression” of marriage? Dr. Joseph Horton begs the contrary. Analyzing the practical consequences of polyamory’s promise of non-exclusive, interconnected networks of romance, Horton observes that “the suggestion that polyamory be considered normal portends a seismic cultural shift … Normalizing relationship limitlessness will in the end be limiting.”

There is a reason why loony left environmentalists are laughed at. They brought it on themselves with their foolish proposals to “save the planet.” What used to be known as “conservation” is now a weird and wild playground of the absurd and irrational.

A few representative stories drawn from many, many examples illustrate the silliness of their premise. The British Broadcasting Corporation reported that professor emeritus Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh wants to replicate the effects of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, to study the effects of global warming. His idea is to spray massive amounts of sea salt into the atmosphere using wind-powered pumps on ships. The salt would reflect the sun’s rays back into space and thus lower the global temperature. Brilliant! And what happens when salt rain falls on arable land? Crop failure anyone?

It's beginning to look a lot like China.

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The City of Grand Forks is considering providing clean needles for drug addicts.  What could possibly go wrong?

It starte with raw fear.  The knock on the door in the midle of the night.  The "social credit score" which strips you of the right to travel, to have a job, to go to school, to buy things you need.  Then it takes away your right to assemble or to speak.  Eventually you are nothing but an organ farm, kept alive only to supply vital organs to the marketplace.   But before that first step, the authorities take away your guns and your right to self defense.  When it reaches the end game, it looks like this.

The First Amendment is baked in the cake.

Dan Wos of Gun Owners of America has an urgent message.

We've all heard the expression, "There oughta be a law!"  whenever something seems unfair or amiss in our lives.  Usually that is the last thing that there "oughta" be!

A stimulating e-mail from an old friend last week inspired me. He cited various quotations of famous men. How wonderfully conversant these quotes were to my way of thinking. They recalled old-school values and a heritage spanning centuries.

I began my own search for quotations. The following is a selection of a few of the many aphorisms worth reciting. Anyone can find gratification and affirmation by noodling around the internet. Suggested sites include brainyquote.com, rightwingnews.com, quoteload.com, and refseek.com.

            Insights from our Founding Fathers include:

It might seem to some of us that our governor and our president are just a little to sanguine about our Bill of Rights - our due process is at stake and these guys are pretty off-hand about its importance in every aspect of American life.

"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

We are inundated with con jobs - people who call and try to steal your bank account, websites and smartphone games that mine data.  There is really no end.  But perhaps the most costly con game around is the green one.

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Are the CDC and the FDA lying to us?

We aren't the only ones in trouble.

Another kid, another cause

In 2018 Trump told the UN, “[S]overeign and independent nations are the only vehicles where freedom has ever survived and democracy has ever endured…so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all…We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.” In rejecting globalism and emphasizing Make America Great Again, President Trump has upset more apple carts than can be counted.

Fonte concludes by giving a thumbs up to President Trump and his administration. “For decades conservative thinking has ignored the globalist challenge. The good news is that the Trump Administration is taking the conflict between democratic sovereignty and global governance seriously.”

Europe places itself on the altar of Mother Earth

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